As a balmy spring evening descended on western Paris, I needed to make my way across town to my apartment, roughly three kilometers away. The streets were congested, so I was hesitant to take a cab, and I didn’t feel like taking the Metro because it was hot and the station was far away. So I rented a battery-powered scooter that was available on the street and nipped through traffic, right to my front door. The trip was fun, not to mention affordable and speedy. It was also green, I assumed: Escooters don’t belch out fumes, so it had to be, right?
The rollout of massive numbers of shared escooters
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